Thomas Hruska wrote: > > However, they probably target older versions of Windows. VS 2008 is the > first time Microsoft has deviated from "infinite backwards > compatibility" since the 16-bit days and the DLL versions of the > runtimes no longer support building for older versions of 32-bit Windows. >
They do target older versions of Windows, in fact the versions they target are so old that the last guy who was here got fired for using the standard template library and blowing the size of the executable up from 2MB to 10MB. I was really shocked when I heard this (coming from Java where everybody uses libraries)... I think what they have is VS 2005 (lying around the office and not being used); This place won't look bad on my resume will it? Thomas Hruska wrote: > > Brett McCoy wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:08 AM, maskkkk132 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> What they really mean: "We don't want to spend the money" >>> No I don't think that's it, like I said they already have a copy of VS >>> 2005. They are really afraid of type-safety. >> >> Hmmmm... curious to see what they mean by that.. Visual C++ 97 is even >> older than VC++ 6.0, which is known to have issues and isn't standards >> compliant. I'd think if they were concerned about "type safety" they'd >> want a compiler that was more current and compliant. >> >> -- Brett > > Perhaps they are complaining about VC++ 2005's Platform SDK (now > apparently called the Windows SDK) where using ANSI Standard functions > results in a zillion warnings about using deprecated functions. There > are a couple compile-time #define's for that problem. I can't imagine > NOT wanting type safety as a reason to NOT upgrade. Someone needs to > get with the times. > > However, they probably target older versions of Windows. VS 2008 is the > first time Microsoft has deviated from "infinite backwards > compatibility" since the 16-bit days and the DLL versions of the > runtimes no longer support building for older versions of 32-bit Windows. > > -- > Thomas Hruska > CubicleSoft President > Ph: 517-803-4197 > > *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 > Get on task. Stay on task. > > http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/VCpp-97-Logging--tp18443142p18465518.html Sent from the C-prog mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
